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From: "Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hughes <john@calvaedi.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@netapp.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't hang user processes if Kerberos ticket for nfs4 mount expires
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:46:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76928528.162.1321494375223.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111116203119.1d9c0dd6@corrin.poochiereds.net>

Hi,

While I'm not expert in this area, my impression had been that the established
practice was that used with AFS, i.e., run jobs under a process capable of renewing
kerberos tickets, e.g., kstart (http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/).

Matt

----- "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@redhat.com> wrote:

> The previous situation was also a recipe for disaster, and was often
> cited as a primary reason why people didn't want to deploy kerberized
> NFS. Having everything fall down and go boom when your ticket expires
> is not desirable either.
> 
> I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree on this point. That said,
> I'm
> open to sane suggestions however that don't regress the behavior for
> those users who need to be able to cope with expired tickets.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

-- 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16 18:14 [PATCH] Don't hang user processes if Kerberos ticket for nfs4 mount expires John Hughes
2011-11-16 19:47 ` Jeff Layton
2011-11-16 23:44   ` Jim Rees
2011-11-17  1:31     ` Jeff Layton
2011-11-17  1:38       ` Jeff Layton
2011-11-17 11:05         ` John Hughes
2011-11-17 13:13           ` John Hughes
2011-11-17 21:46             ` Jeff Layton
2011-11-18  1:51               ` Jim Rees
2011-11-18  2:03                 ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]               ` <4EC62325.1060009@Calva.COM>
2011-11-18 12:50                 ` Jim Rees
2011-11-17  1:46       ` Matt W. Benjamin [this message]
2011-11-17  9:37   ` John Hughes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-18 17:16 Myklebust, Trond
2011-11-18 17:54 ` Jim Rees
2011-11-18 18:23   ` Trond Myklebust

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